Author's Note: Hope you all enjoyed the last chapter. We are nearing the end of this arc with only three more chapters left and then we start the Eye of the Midnight Sun arc. I'm not sure about the other girls but Noelle's lemon chapter will probably be at the end of this arc. Stay tuned to find out.

"…" Character P.O.V.

'…' Character thought.

"…" Spells.

"…" Animal P.O.V.

'…' Animal thought.

[…] Over-voice.

{…} Through Communication Device

Now then on with the new chapter.

Chapter 34: Wounded Beasts

[Streets of the Noble Realm]

As the fighting in the destroyed parts of the Noble Realm came to a close, there were injured citizens everywhere along with Magic Knights helping them.

[Castle Town Kikka, Head Chef Kitchen]

The head chef, Jamo, and his two assistance were looking out over the Noble Realm through large hole that Charmy had sent Catherine through.

"Things have quieted down. Has the enemy been taken care of?" Jamo wonders.

Meanwhile Yuno was still passed out on Charmy's Cotton Magic bed while Charmy herself, still underneath Yuno's outstretched arm, was enjoying her dish Jamo had prepared.

"Yum, yum, can't move. Can't move, can't move…" Charmy says munching away at her food. "My meal-saving prince…" She says about Yuno.

[Street of the Noble Realm]

The injured citizens were being looked over by the Magic Knights while the girl Asta and Noelle had saved was among them, resting against the wall with Nero still atop her head.

"I hope the Magic Knights are okay." The girl wonders with her knees curled up to her chest.

"Don't worry, Asta and Noelle are both incredible strong and with those two Crimson Lion members there, there's no way they'll lose." Nero says gently stroking her head with his wing.

[Northern District]

Asta was laughing a bit as he brought his Anti-Magic swords to his wounds, destroying the ice covering them and slashes the wounds really fast.

"Huh? Asta?" Noelle asks as she saw this happen.

"What are you doing?" Leopold asks in confusion.

"A small repair job for the curse cut! Now, I can fight without having to worry of it growing bigger!" Asta says as he prepared his Anti-Magic swords with his magic power flaring as he glanced at Fuegoleon a bit. "Just watch and I'll show you more of what I can do." He says and unknown to any of them Fuegoleon had heard Asta's words and grinned a little as he focused his magic into the palm of his left hand.

'What the hell?! This brat…he just struck himself with his own swords to get rid of the curse? Unbelievable…he's so stupid!' Rades thought as he stood dumbfounded at Asta's latest action and couldn't form the words as he continued to stare with his mouth slightly open.

"Wow, he's fun. I've never seen someone do that before. This kid's also got some interesting magic as well. Can I dissect him later?" The woman from before asks as she giggled a bit at the display and took a step forward, pointing to Asta.

"Focus, put your habits aside and remember the mission." A fellow hooded mage says.

"Boo. You're such a spoilsport." The woman says as she raised her hand and summoned some magic energy.

The other four hooded mages soon followed suit, planning to kill them all in one fell swoop

"Let me tell you something, I've been fighting against the world since I was born." Asta says, drawing all their attention. "It doesn't matter what you throw at me or how many you've got on your side, I'll cut through all of you!" He shouts.

"Asta…" A weak voice says gaining Asta, Leopold, and Noelle's attention.

"Fuegoleon!" The three mages shout in shock as they saw the one-armed captain had managed to roll himself onto his back.

'He's still alive?!' Rades, Valtos, and the five hooded mages thought in shock.

"Here…" Fuegoleon says weakly holding up his left hand that had a small fire in his palm. "This is the last of my old Fire Magic. When I saw you create Water Dragon Slayer Magic it intrigued me how you are about to create new magics with the right element." He says weakly. "Now I want you take these flames to help you grow stronger." He says.

Asta was shocked for a moment at the words Fuegoleon just said and what he was offering him as well. He then steeled his nerves as he kneeled beside the captain and gripped his raised arm with both his hands and began ingesting the flames. Everyone stared in shock as they watched the young Black Bull mage eat the fire provided by the Crimson Lion captain and then they noticed his Dragon Slayer grimoire flip its pages to a blank one as it began filling itself in with a language that only Noelle could understand.

'Fire Dragon Slayer Magic?' Noelle thought in shock.

"Thank you, sir and please continue to watch over me." Asta says gently setting Fuegoleon's arm down. "Hope you bastards are ready, hope you're ready, cause I'm all fired up!" He yells as flames surround his body and his hair gains red highlights. "Fire Dragon Slayer Mode!" He shouts as silhouette of a red dragon with black markings appeared over him, with giant wings, and glowing yellow eyes. "All right! Come at me! Show me what you've got!" He yells as the dragon silhouette roared into the sky.

"It seems he's lost his mind in the face of our numbers." A man known as George says, with blond hair styled in an asymmetric cut and a scar on the left side of his face, as raised his right hand with yellowish green magic surrounding it.

"Whatever. He's about to die anyway." The crazy girl named Sally says holding her hand up as well while it glowed purple.

"I don't think so!" Asta yells as his grimoire flipped a page. "Fire Dragon's…" He begins to say as fire engulfs his fists before slamming them on the ground. "…Twister!" He shouts as a twister of fire surrounds him, Noelle, Leopold, and Fuegoleon, defending them from the five incoming magic blasts.

The hooded enemies were surprised by this but quickly shook it off and kept firing, only to be met with the same result.

"There's no use in fighting." George says as he and the other hooded figures continue to fire magic blasts trying to penetrate the fire twister.

"You need to learn when to give up." Rades says as he watches his comrades try to penetrate Asta's fire twister.

"Ha, that's the one thing I refuse to learn." Asta says with a chuckle. "No matter how many times I'm knocked down I'll keep pushing forward until I reach what I'm aiming for." He says.

"Oh, so that's him." Sally says with the crazed smile still present on her face.

"So this is the "Lost Magic"/"Anti-Magic" brat our master spoke of." George says as he and his comrades ceased their attacks as Asta's fire twister dies down and glares at them with slit-like eyes.

Asta steadies his breathing as he glances over his shoulder towards the Crimson Lion Captain and remembers his words.

[Flashback]

"Your exuberance and rare magic may be your greatest weapons, but keep a cool head, too. If you truly wish to become the Wizard King, that is." Fuegoleon says as Asta thinks on the advice he's just been given and nods towards the captain causing him to smirk.

[End Flashback]

"Keep a cool head…right, sir?" Asta asks as he pulls out his two Anti-Magic swords. "I'll stay calm…while I kick their butts!" He says loudly, tightening his grip on his swords.

"This little…" George was about to say until he felt the surge of magic as well as the heat of blue fire.

"Fire Phoenix's Wild Bursting Flame!" Leopold yells as he fires blue fireballs in every direction of the cloaked figures surrounding him and his fellow Magic Knights.

The enemies were quick on their feet and began to dodge or countered the fireball with their own attacks.

"You think I'm going to let you people throw your weight around after what you did to my brother?!" Leopold yells as he charges at one of the cloaked enemies while his grimoire flips through its pages to a certain one. "Fire Phoenix's…" He begins to say as his right foot was ignited in blue flames. "Slashing Claws!" He yells as he delivers a powerful kick reinforced with fire. "How about it, Asta?" Leopold asks while conjuring more fire in his left hand. "Let's take these creeps down together!" He shouts.

"Sure! Go right ahead!" Asta yells back as he slashes his Anti-Magic broadsword at one of the cloaked figures as his Elemental Dragon Slayer grimoire turns a page. "Fire Dragon's…" He begins to say as his left foot ignites in flames as he front flips towards another enemy close to him. "Claw!" He yells as his delivers an axe-kick on his opponents head.

One of the hooded wizards then fires a beam of green magic but Asta quickly sliced through the magic and brought down his sword on the enemy to strike him but he reacted quickly and jumped out of the way causing Asta to miss. Leopold, who was also giving a battle cry, soon followed suit with a flame attack to another enemy who also avoided the Fire Phoenix Slayer's attack as Asta charged at George.

"Fire Dragon's…" Asta begins to say as his right fist burst into flames. "Iron Fist!" He yells giving George an uppercut punch, sending the man in the air until he flipped and landed on his feet holding his now burned chin.

'They say beasts are more formidable when they're wounded. These two…' George thought as he saw Asta and Leopold back to back with their magic surging around their bodies and take the form of a red dragon and blue phoenix which were both made out of fire.

"RAAAARH!" Asta and Leopold roared as the fire creatures copied their wielders.

'Are dangerous.' George thought.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Rades asks in frustration as he stood behind George watching the fight happen but wasn't doing any fighting as he was still recovering from his beat down from Asta. "Hurry up and kill them!" He shouts.

"We know! But I wouldn't be talking since you couldn't even defeat one!" George countered as he and his other 4 allies powered up their magic, ready to fight another 5-point attack. "You weren't our targets, but…" He begins to say as Asta and Leopold grit their teeth to prepare to the incoming attacks. "…We'll kill you here and now!" He shouts as he and the 4 hooded enemies fired their attacks, meant to destroy the two Lost Magic users but were met with a dome of water, Noelle's Sea Dragon's Nest.

"Nice work, Noelle!" Asta said as he and Leopold turn to Noelle, who was still protecting Fuegoleon.

"Don't think that you can kill my friends so easily!" Noelle shouts with her hands on the ground. 'I've done all I can for Captain Fuegoleon, its up to him whether he survives or not but he's strong, so he'll definitely pull through.' She thought looking the unconscious captain.

Noelle's Sea Dragon's Nest surprised the enemies as they all stared the dome of water.

"Wow…that's quite the defensive spell." Sally says as she stare and admires the water dome.

"Judging from your appearance, you must be a member of the royal Silva family." George says taking in Noelle's appearance to determine who she is.

"In that case, I'll use my grimoire against you. I wouldn't want to be rude." One of the hooded enemies says as his grimoire flips through its pages. "Tree Creation Magic: Magic Draining Roots!" He says as his spell soon made large roots appeared around Noelle's spell and slowly spread around it before sticking its roots in.

"Asta!" Noelle shouts in a panic.

"I know!" Asta shouts back, staying on guard.

"What are you planning to do?" Leopold asks as he kept his eyes on the roots.

His answer soon came as the roots started to about the water defense spell, leaving Asta and Leopold vulnerable.

"No…they swallowed my torrent." Noelle says as she watched the act happen. 'My magic is too low. Normally it would take a much more powerful spell than this to destroy a Lost Magic spell.' She thought.

"Hm." The hood figure says with a smug smile as his spell ACTUALLY belched from its meal.

'I only have enough magic to preform about one or two spells.' Noelle thought before she remember certain spells in her Sea Dragon Slayer grimoire. 'That's it!' She thought as her grimoire flipped through its pages. "Asta! Leopold!" She shouts gaining the two boy's attention. "Listen, my magic is almost gone, and these are the last two spells I'll be able to cast. It's not much but it'll be able to help you both." She says as she held out her hands. "Sea Dragon's…" She begins to say as both Asta and Leopold began to surge with magical aura. "Coral Strength + Scale Armor!" She says before panting heavily after feeling the remainder of her magic be exhausted.

"What is this? It feels like my power has increased." Leopold says as his magic flares around him.

"Noelle, what did you do?" Asta asks his crush.

"Sea Dragon's Coral Strength enhances your offensive power while Sea Dragon's Scale Armor enhance you defensive power. It's only for a certain amount of time but it should be enough to help you both." Noelle explains panting heavily.

"I said it before and I'll say it again; Noelle you are simply amazing!" Asta shouts as he and Leopold jump towards George ready to strike him down.

"Your fighting instincts are admirable. Wind Creation Magic: Piercing Tornado Needle!" George shouts as he manifests multiple miniature vortexes of wind and elongates the vortex to create needle-shaped spears and fires them at the boys while they are in mid-air.

'Shit!' Asta thought.

'I can dodge this attack.' Leopold thought as the wind needles came closer.

"Sea God's Divine Bubble!" A voice shouts as a black water bubble forms around both Asta and Leopold protecting them from George's wind spell.

Everyone was shocked at the black water bubble that protected the two Magic Knights as the bubble lands on the ground and disperses revealing the uninjured forms of Asta and Leopold.

"Wasn't sure I would make it in time but I'm glad I did." The voice says as everyone looks behind them to see Nebra Silva with a smirk on her face.

"Nebra!" Noelle shouts in joy at seeing her older sister.

"Good to see you're okay Noelle. Wish I could say the same for Captain Fuegoleon." Nebra says seeing the downed captain.

"Oh great! Another Lost Magic user!" Rades shouts in frustration.

"Asta, you better hurry up and win unless you want me to start thinking less of you! Same goes for you, Leopold!" Nebra shouts to the two boys.

"Don't need to tell me twice." Asta says and using his Dragon Slayer enhanced speed charges at one of the hood enemies who was on his left side.

Asta was too fast for the man to evade as he thrusted his right arm forward and grabs the man. Asta's Elemental Dragon Slayer grimoire flips through its pages as he supports his attacking arm with the other.

"Fire Dragon's Grip Strike!" Asta yells as he releases a vast amount of explosive flames at point-blank range, burning the man.

With the man down for the count Asta uses his enhanced power and throws the man towards George who side-steps causing the thrown man to crash into Rades. Meanwhile Leopold rushes to his right side towards a hood enemy as his Fire Phoenix Slayer grimoire flipped its pages.

"Fire Phoenix's…" Leopold begins to say as a large torrent of blue fire surrounds his body, tapering off at his head in a pointed, drill like shape. "Beak Drill!" He shouts rushing towards his target while the torrents of flames around his body began to spin clockwise like an actual drill as he crashes into the man who was unable to dodge causing him to be sent flying into the wall behind George.

The Tree Magic user, seeing his comrades defeated tries to attack both Asta and Leopold at once but using their superior speed they both disappeared from his sight for a brief second before sensing their mana signatures behind him.

"Fire Dragon's…" Asta begins to say as his right fist is ingulfed in flames.

"Fire Phoenix's…" Leopold begins to say as his left fist is ingulfed in blue flames.

"Iron Fist!/Striking Hook!" Asta and Leopold shout as they drove the fire covered fists into the Tree Magic users face as he goes flying into the air and lands behind George and on top of Rades and the other hooded mage.

"Unbelievable…so this is the power of Lost Magic users?" George asks himself as he watched the two Intermediate Magic Knights defeat three of his allies.

Asta and Leopold turn and glare at the remaining terrorist mages as the magical images of a dragon and phoenix loom over them. The two slow begin walking towards Sally and George as Valtos watches from atop the building. As the two Magic Knights draw closer to the terrorist mages, George notices something about the mana.

'The mana enhancement that was placed on these two is starting to fade. The royal's spell must be wearing off.' George thought as he watched Asta and Leopold leap into the air with Leopold's fist covered in blue flames and Asta with his Anti-Magic swords drawn. 'This is my chance.' He thought readying himself to attack. "Wind Creation Magic: Piercing Tornado Needle!" He shouts as he manifests multiple miniature vortexes of wind and elongates the vortex to create needle-shaped spears and fires them at the boys while they are in mid-air.

This time the spell had more speed in it as the boys were unable to dodge and were pierced by the wind needles. Both Asta and Leopold pass out from the attack and fall to the ground as they began to lose consciousness.

"That was…" Asta begins to say.

"…too fast." Leopold finishes as they both pass out.

"Asta! Leopold!" Noelle screams after seeing comrades defeated.

"This can't be." Nebra says with shock in her eyes.

"Now, let's end this." George says readying himself to attack again.

"N-No way…" Noelle stutters as she and Nebra watch George fire more Piercing Tornado Needles. "No!" She screams.

'I won't make it in time.' Nebra thought attempting to create another Divine Bubble around the unconscious boys.

As the attack grew closer to the boys something suddenly came diving in from the sky and blocked George's wind needles. This caused everyone to gasp in shock and hang their mouths open as the object appeared to be some sort of giant, silver bubble.

"Ohh, what's this magic? I've never seen anything like this before!" Sally says still smiling.

A silence filled the air as the bubble popped and revealed all of the Magic Knights that were teleported away from the capital had returned.

"E-Everyone…" Noelle begins to say surprised.

"You're back!" Nebra said, equally surprised.

"The other Magic Knights…" George says in shock as Rades grits his teeth in frustration.

Up on the roof where Valtos had continued to view the battle and the arrival of the Magic Knights, as Alecdora then landed on the roof next to the one Valtos was on.

"How dare you send us that far away." Alecdora says to the Spatial Magic user.

"Impossible…they managed to return here from that distance so quickly?" Valtos wonders.

"We really didn't want to, but we all worked together to get back." Alecdora says recalling the events of how they used Nozel's Mercury Magic, Klaus' Steel Magic, Sol's Earth Magic, and everyone's mana to create the ticket back to the Noble Realm. "I suppose you could call it, Super Compound Magic." He says, remembering all of them riding on a strange tower with wings and a swirling tip.

"Joining forces once in a while isn't so bad." Hamon says chuckling.

"Well, I guess men aren't completely useless." Sol says scratching the back of her neck.

"I'll acknowledge their abilities. Nothing more." Charlotte says.

"I'm never working with them again. As a member of the Silver Eagles, this was completely humiliating." Solid scoffs.

"But our nine Magic Knights squads exist solely to protect the peace of the Clover Kingdom!" Nozel says. "How is it you weren't transported with us, Nebra?" He asks his sister.

"Must be because I'm a Lost Magic user and Spacial Magic users can't forcible teleport us away like normal magic users." Nebra explains her theory to her older brother as the Silver Eagle captain stared at George and his allies while noticing Mimosa moving towards Noelle and a down Fuegoleon.

"Oh my! What happened?!" Mimosa asks as she kneels down next to him.

"He was badly injured after he willingly allowed himself to be teleported to a different location." Noelle explained. "I did all I could for him, but my magic has run out so maybe you can do more for him." She says.

"No…how could something like this happen to someone like Captain Fuegoleon?" Mimosa wonders as her grimoire opens. "Plant Healing Magic: Princess Healing Kimono." She says as she begins re-healing her one-armed cousin and then looks to Asta and Leopold. "Please, check Asta and Leopold. Are they breathing?" She wonders as Klaus answered her prayer and went to Asta to help him up.

"Come on! Wake up, Asta!" Klaus shouts in worry but kept his calm.

Asta then let out a small grown and moved a bit, relaxing Klaus worries that he wasn't dead. However, unknown to anyone both Asta's Elemental Dragon Slayer grimoire and Leopold's Fire Phoenix Slayer grimoire were pulsing as it resonated with their hearts.

"You're alive!" Klaus says with relief in his voice before turning to glance at the hooded enemies. "To defeat Magic Knights of their strength, how powerful are these enemies?" He asks.

As the question went unanswered, Valtos quickly opened a portal and appeared behind George.

"Our loses will be too high if we continue this fight. We must go. Retreat." Valtos says, prioritizing the situation.

This didn't work as well as he thought it would as Nozel opened his grimoire.

"What? Leaving so soon?" Nozel asks before commanding. "Mercury Magic: Silver Rain!" He shouts as droplets of mercury appear above the terrorists.

"Gel Magic: Sticky Salamander!" Sally says with both hands raised as she creates a salamander composed solely of a purple gel material.

"My magic will just pierce through magic like that." Nozel says not fazed in the least bit.

"And then…" Sally begins to say holding up a giant hypodermic needle filled with pink fluid before sticking the needle in her gel salamander. "Dark Magic Item: Special Properties Plus Alpha…absorbed!" She says as the fluid enter the salamander, it turned the same color as the substance in the vile and as the silver rain fell on the salamander, they weren't doing any damage and were being absorb by the gel creature as it's master cheered.

"They managed to deflect the captain's magic as if it were nothing." Klaus says in shock.

'What…is that magic item?' Nozel wonders as the Sticky Salamander was about to attack with its right fist. "Be on guard, it's attacking." He warned the other Magic Knights.

As the Sticky Salamander's fist begins to move forward, two figures appear in front of it both ignited in flames, one red the other blue. Upon closer inspection it was revealed to be Asta and Leopold.

"Asta! Leopold!" Noelle shouts in shock at seeing her fellow Lost Magic users back on their feet, so to speak.

"Dragon Slayer's Secret Art: Crimson Lotus: Exploding Flame Blade!" Asta yells as he ignites his arms and generates long torrents of flames from them, which move to hit the enemy in a spiraling formation.

"Phoenix Slayer's Secret Art: Torrent Flap of Combustion!" Leopold yells as he transforms his arms into wings of phoenix while concentrating his fire at max and a surge of energy he abruptly increases their size being as big as a train, then he releases a giant wave of blue flames.

The two powerful attacks combine with Asta's surrounding Leopold's as they make contact with the Sticky Salamander as it's entire left side leaving it standing on its right leg about to fall over if not for its tail balancing the missing leg. Asta and Leopold land on the ground as the fire surrounding them disappear revealing Asta to have scale-like marking while Leopold had feather-like markings all across their bodies.

"What in the world just happened?" Mimosa asks in shock. "That wasn't Leopold's regular Fire Magic." She says.

"Leopold has become a Lost Magic user along with Fuegoleon. Leopold's magic is now Fire Phoenix Slayer Magic while Captain Fuegoleon's is Fire God Slayer Magic." Noelle explains.

"But what's with those strange markings all along their bodies?" Klaus wonders.

"I'm not…" Noelle says as she looks through her Sea Dragon Slayer grimoire. "Ah, here it is. Asta is in the final and ultimate form of a Dragon Slayer called Dragon Force. When we Dragon Slayers enter this state our skin becomes scaly like an actual Dragon's and our magic power increases. I'm guessing that Leopold is in Phoenix Force which must be the equivalent of Dragon Force for a Phoenix Slayer." She explains to the other Magic Knights.

"That's amazing. Lost Magic can grant people that kind of power?" Sol asks.

"Yes but their magic was really low before they enter that state, so I'm not sure how long they'll…" Noelle begins to say but at that moment both Asta and Leopold pass out once again.

When Sally saw the two boys fall she used her Sticky Salamander's remain arm to stretch forward and capture Asta.

"No-" Klaus yells attempting to grab Asta, but it was too late, the salamander formed a gel bubble around him and dropped him in front of Sally.

"Mine!" Sally shouts holding the bubble with Asta inside.

"What are you planning on doing with him?" George asks.

"It's a secret!" Sally giggles in a sing-song voice.

"Remember this, Magic Knights. We are the Eye of the Midnight Sun…the one who will destroy the Clover Kingdom." George says closing his grimoire.

As the warning ended, Valtos used his magic to create a portal large enough to swallow the grouped and the captured Dragon Slayer, only leaving residual drops of the gel salamander.

"ASTA!" Noelle said in shock as her crush was taken right before her eyes.

Author's Note: I'm sorry for the long delay on this chapter. I'm trying to make this story follow the canon while also making noticeable changes. It took me a while to be able to think of the scenes I want to add to and change so bear with me on that. Please be sure to review and tell me what you thought of this chapter. Also I've been thinking of adding Vanessa back into Asta's harem, let me know what you think of this.